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Jessica Wright writes the Private Melbourne column and reports on fashion. Previously she was breaking news reporter for The Age, national political correspondent for The Sun-Herald and The Sunday Age and breaking news reporter for the National Times.

Jessica Wright
A CONFIDENTIAL government briefing prepared for independent MPs yet to decide whether to support the government's flood levy has revealed the extent - and lack - of reinsurance arrangements in states...

Jessica Wright
THE federal government will consider changing legislation to prevent insurers from bamboozling policy holders with complicated flood clauses when it holds crisis talks with heads of industry.

Jessica Wright FEDERAL POLITICS
THE federal government will consider changing legislation to prevent insurers bamboozling policyholders with complicated flood clauses when it holds crisis talks with heads of industry this week.

Jessica Wright and Alicia Wood FEDERAL POLITICS
THE original architect of Australia's national paid parental leave scheme, former Democrat leader Natasha Stott-Despoja, has welcomed its arrival but says both main political parties are culpable for...

Josh Gordon and Jessica Wright
AUSTRALIA'S immigration detention system is being clogged by growing numbers of rejected asylum seekers who should be sent home, the United Nations refugee agency has warned.

EXCLUSIVE Jessica Wright
GREENS leader Bob Brown will not marry his partner if gay marriage is legalised in Australia - an event the party founder has predicted will occur in the Gillard government's first term.

Jessica Wright
COALITION filibustering tactics in the Senate on the national broadband network will cost Australian taxpayers about $2000 a minute of extra debate because the House of Representatives is being...